rsync & rotated logs

[jw schultz]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 11:14:47PM +0100, Andrzej Filip wrote:
> What is the best way to keeps rsynced copy of rotate log files ?
> 
> x.log -> x.log.1 -> x.log.2.gz -> ...
> 
> Can rsync "notice" changes of file name and avoid needless synchronization ?

Change how you rotate log files so that once rotated the old
files don't change names.

x.log -> x.log.yyyymmdd.gz

If you are using logrotate there is a patch at SuSE for it
to do this and Red Hat (owner of logrotate) has an open
enhancement request to add the feature.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108775

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